by David Matheson | Oct 26, 2012 | Innovation Management
At the recent Back End of Innovation conference, Ron Adner, author of The Wide Lens, gave real insight into one of the holy grails of innovation: how can you be successful when you need to create a new ecosystem? The almost tired example of the iPod illustrates what...
by David Matheson | Aug 24, 2012 | Resources
Maximize the Rate of Learning The traditional models of innovation, based on planning and making reasonable assumptions, don’t work. To make innovation work requires a radical rethink based on the reality of efforts that don’t go according to plan and that can achieve...
by David Matheson | Aug 24, 2012 | Innovation Management
The traditional models of innovation, based on planning and making reasonable assumptions, don’t work. To make innovation work requires a radical rethink based on the reality of efforts that don’t go according to plan and that can achieve unreasonable levels of...
by Somik Raha | Aug 9, 2012 | Strategy, ValuePoint™
In a remarkable paper in 1980, titled “An Assessment of Decision Analysis,” Stanford’s Professor Ronald Howard wondered if Buddha was the “First Decision Analyst” and wrote the following: There are those who believe that there is something “cold and inhuman” about...
by Don Creswell | Jul 25, 2012 | Strategy
I lifted the following story from Grant Williams’s article from (John Mauldin’s “Outside the Box”) newsletter: During World War II, [Nobel laureate, Ken] Arrow was assigned to a team of statisticians to produce long-range weather forecasts. After a time, Arrow and his...
by David Matheson | Jul 5, 2012 | Professional Development
Where do you stand? Are you really focusing your portfolio on creating new wealth, or are you making the political compromises necessary to get by? Do you have a great dashboard but don’t have credible data? We’ve seen many ways strategic portfolio management (SPM)...
